Movima

Movima is the language of the Movima people of the Llanos de Moxos, the seasonally flooded savanna of the Beni department in Bolivia, where it is spoken in Yacuma Province. It has no proven relatives and is regarded as a language isolate.

From the 1670s Jesuit priests moving out from Santa Cruz de la Sierra gathered the peoples of the region into mission reductions along the Mamoré River, beginning with Loreto and with Trinidad founded in 1686; Movima was among the indigenous languages spoken in these missions, where the Arawakan language Moxo served as the common tongue.